Rail-bond.



A. LIGHT.

RAIL BOND.

- APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 17,1908. 9 1 6,882. Patented Mar. 30, 1909.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 3%, 184%.

Application filed. September 17, 1908. Serial No- *ai'asi To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBIN incur, a citizen of the United States, residing at S adra, in the county of Johnson and State of rkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Bonds; and I do hereby declare the followin to be a full, clear, and exact description 0 the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it a pertains to make and use the same.

his invention relates to rail bonds and has for an object to provide a bond more closely connected with a rail than in the ordinary method of bonding.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bond having sleeves adapted to surround some of the bolts connecting the rail and fish plates which said sleeves are directly in contact with the surfaces of the rail.

A further object of the invention is to provide a fish plate adapted for co-action with the improved form of bond.

Wit these and other objects in view, the invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, as will behereinafter. described and claimed.

In the drawingsz Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of rail ends connected bv a fish plate with the improved bond secured thereon. Fig. 2 is a view in transverse section of a rail, fish plate and bond taken on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the improved bond. Fig. 4 is a view in side elevation of a fra inent ofthe fish plate showing the acoommo ation for the bond. Fig. 5 is a view in transverse section of the fish plate as on line 55 of Fig. 4 showing the groove for the accommodation of the bond.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The improved bond forming the subjectmatter of this application is adapted for use in association with the usual and ordinary rails, fragments of whichare-shown at 11 with their ends substantially meeting and held by a fish plate 2 and b0 ts 3. The fish ordinary and common construction may be employed, is preferably provided with a li 4 outstanding substanmi dl and extending partly or entirely over the nut ends of the bolts 3, forming thereby protection for the bolts as well as rotection for the bond hereinafter described.

, op osite sides of such Longitudinally of the fish plate a groove 5 is formed connecting opening ti in the fish plate through which the bolts 3 extend and arger diameter than the diameter of such bolts. Within the groove 5 located, such bond being" formed with sleeves 8 at opposite ends thereof ofproper exterior diameter to slide within the opening 6 and of proper interior diameter to properly fit upon the bolts 3. The sleeves 8 are of such length that the extremities when in position engage the surface of the rail 1 as shown particularly in Fig. 2 and are held in position by means of washers 9 and nuts 10, whereby the end of the sleeve '8 is clamped firmly in contact with the surface of the raii.

It will be apparent that by forcing the sleeves upon opposite ends of the bond into intimate engagement with the rails themselves, a more perfect electrical contact is provided, thus preventing leakage of return current. It is customary, of course, to make such bond from copper which is an expensive material and in ordinary use the bonds extend somewhat more than the length of the fish plate and engage the rails upon plate thereby using a arge quantity of copper in their manufacture.

In the resent invention the sleeves may be forme by simply flattening the end of the wire and forming it into the shape of a sleeve and when inserted within the opening 6 of the fish plate form proper contact wit the rail by the employment of only suffia bond 7 is heo cient wire to extend between adjacent bolts.

What I claim is:

1. In a device of the class described, adjacent rail sections, a fish plate provided with bolt openings, bolts inserted through such opening smaller in diameter than the and bonds inserted within the openings,

some of the bolts of each rail openings of section.

2. In a device of the class described, a fish plate, bolts adapted to clampthe fish plate in position, said bolts I extending through openings in the fish plates greaterin diameter than the bolts, and a bond extending between the bolts and within the openings about such bolts. w 3. In a deviceof the class described, a fish plate provided with bolt openings, a groove extending between the bolt openings, and a bond seated in the groove and rovided with sleeves within the bolt openings.

4. In a device of the class described, a. fish plate 'rovided with bolt openings, a groove exten ing between the bolt openings, and a bond seated Within the groove and termi- 1 the sleeve into engagement with the rail and 5 mating in sleeves disposed within the bolt the fish plate upon. the rail.

openings and of a length substantially equal In testimon whereof I affix my signature to the thickness of t e fish'plate. in presence 0 two Witnesses. 5. The combination with rail ends, of a. AI BIN LIGHT fish plate adapted to hold the rail ends and I 10 PI'OVldGd With bolt openings, bolts for the Witnesses: V

openings smaller in diameter than the openi ARTHUR H. Ross, ings, such fish plate being provided with a, i EVERETT H. JONES.

groove extendin between the bolt openings 3, bond dispose within the openings an embracing the bolts, and means to clamp 15 

